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by josh2600 5y ago
If I’m not mistaken, the palantir was not accurate in its clairvoyance, right? Wasn’t it showing the black flag ships approaching Minas Tirith and caused the head of the city to flee when really it was Aragorn or the elves coming to save th
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by josh2600 5y ago
24 is not very good. I just want to point out that a lot of chains that report high tps are cheating in one way or another. I won’t name names but some of the “highest throughput” chains count their node synchronization messages as transact
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by josh2600 5y ago
For what it's worth, my Tiktok feed has 0 political content. It's all dancing, contortionists, singers, and magicians. I think the algorithms serve their masters.
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by josh2600 5y ago
I have to say that many of my fondest memories from all kinds of systems; games, work, play, all of my favorite times were when I was finding an unscratched edge in a model. There’s something superlative about finding a hack, a way to obtai
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by josh2600 5y ago
This is a very hackernews take. The majority of people love Twitter as a product. A vocal minority are upset about disinformation, but most people think it’s entertaining. We know this because it generates more clicks. A ministry of truth t
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by josh2600 5y ago
Hackernews is simultaneously the most cantankerous and, imho, highest quality response on average public forum on the net. I absolutely love it here and sincerely appreciate this place. I feel like I’ve grown up on this site in so many ways
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by josh2600 5y ago
100%, thank you. I had spoken to someone at Apple who said Apple was $5M and Android was $2M, but I hadn’t bothered to check. Thanks for posting data!!
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by josh2600 5y ago
Can you point to a single instance of a cellphone vendor who takes security more seriously than Apple? Put a different way, is there any device with a high monthly active user count that has a higher cost to purchase a black market exploit
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by josh2600 5y ago
I 100% agree. My point was that often in life a lot of success that we attribute to skill is luck. I got insanely lucky more times than I can count. A few coin flips in the other direction and I’d be homeless.
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by josh2600 5y ago
Ok normally I’d just let something like this go but I just have to pull my hair out when I see a comment like this. The attack surface of software as complicated as a modern operating system (iOS or MacOS, etc.) is simply too large to lockd
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by josh2600 5y ago
I was about one paycheck away from missing a payment on my parents mortgage. The friends I begged were people I had causally met at burning man. I grew up very poor, like don’t know where your next meal is gonna come from poor. I networked
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by josh2600 5y ago
Note: I am not an engineer. I’m mostly skilled in telling stories. I got fired from every job I ever had before I started working for myself. Each time I left I ended up in a better job until the last time when I got laid off from a telecom
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by josh2600 5y ago
Confucius says there are 3 ways to gain wisdom: Imitation, which is easiest. Meditation, which is noblest. Experience, which is bitterest. Anytime I learn anything new, I imitate until I can’t anymore, then I meditate to understand why I th
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by josh2600 5y ago
Matthew Green wrote zerocash, the protocol behind zcash, and he teaches cryptography at John Hopkins. When it comes to cryptography he knows enough to have opinions. It's hard to opine about black box systems, which is why open-source
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by josh2600 5y ago
This mirrors my experience. Strong investors now will literally assign their voting shares to the ceo and not take board seats even in a Series B round.
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by josh2600 5y ago
Great post. An addendum: people still burnout even when the org is succeeding (shipping products, hitting liquidity, etc.).
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by josh2600 5y ago
This is the pattern that signal took with secure value recovery as well.
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by josh2600 5y ago
One of my favorite facts of recent note is the rapid decrease in the price of solar. This article by Ramez Naam puts the whole thing into perspective: https://rameznaam.com/2020/05/14/solars-future-is-insanely
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by josh2600 5y ago
I have thought tether was a scam for years. I am very deep in the industry. I now think tether is neither a scam nor a Ponzi scheme in the classic sense of the word (they’re not borrowing from Peter to pay Paul). What tether is doing is ref
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by josh2600 5y ago
It sounds like it's basically chainmail for tanks.
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by josh2600 5y ago
Ok so having worked on distributed consensus a bunch here are a couple thoughts in no particular order: * In the real world, servers misbehave, like, a lot, so you have to deal with that fact. All assumptions about network robustness in par
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by josh2600 5y ago
I mean it's not a Ponzi scheme in that there isn't a 'borrow from peter to pay paul' kinda thing happening. It's actually just a kinda weird lottery with manipulable game theoretical rules. I think of a Ponzi as a s
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by josh2600 5y ago
We’re seeing a full frontal assault on Intel by competing computing architectures. Everyone is jockeying to see who is going to have the better next gen architecture. The problem is that in order to start attacking general computing as a pr
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by josh2600 5y ago
Yes it absolutely is for international banking.
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by josh2600 5y ago
Man, I know people keep saying this but like, in 1997 e-commerce was just starting to take hold. The number of people who hold crypto in the world is roughly equivalent to people with internet access in 97. Give it 25 years and watch what h
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by josh2600 5y ago
When bits are flipped in a row hammer attack, what is happening to the dram? Most people would argue the energetic potential is increasing causing a failure of the boundary between cells...
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by josh2600 5y ago
I mean the punchline is: if you heat something up enough then you can get electrons to wiggle. At some level of cell wall thickness, the cost/time/annoyance of triggering a rowhammer exceeds the value of the attack, and other meth
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by josh2600 5y ago
https://orionmagazine.org/article/forget-shorter-showers/ << This is the seminal essay on this subject, IMHO.
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by josh2600 5y ago
This space above the motorcycle shop is my office now. It’s such a trip to read about this story. Thank you for sharing. If you ever want to come by and tell Dan stories, I’d be happy to host you.
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by josh2600 5y ago
Dan was like family to me. I remember so many evenings talking to him with all the stops out for countless hours about a universe of topics. Interacting with his brain was like what I imagine it would feel like to be caught between a supern

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